Gas prices in Europe have soared to their highest level this year following reports that Ukrainian forces have allegedly seized a key gas transit point in Russia’s Kursk region, according to Bloomberg. Benchmark futures surged 4.8% to €38.45 a megawatt-hour, the highest level since December. Bloomberg cites a report by the Russian military blog Rybar suggesting that Ukrainian troops had taken control of a gas intake point near the city of Sudzha. “The claim couldn’t be independently verified”, Bloomberg noted Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom PJSC declined to comment, as did the Ministry of De…